Defiance defined Saturday’s meeting of some members of the Colorado Republican Party’s Central Committee. Comprised almost exclusively of supporters of Dave Williams, the meeting was essentially a MAGA celebration for the former state representative, who insists he is still in charge.
Caraveo Colorado Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) became a co-sponsor last week of a bill aimed at lowering the prices of prescription drugs.
During an Aug. 24 appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, said Trump would veto a federal abortion ban. In 2018, during his last term, Trump supported a 20-week abortion ban. During a March radio interview, Trump seemed to support a 15-week abortion ban.
The battle for control of the Colorado Republican Party is coming at a measurable cost to its fundraising, both at the state and local level.
Here are some answers to questions about COVID as cases appear to be spiking in Colorado.
There has been nervousness and hand-wringing in Christian nationalist circles this week, since Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance commented in an interview that Donald Trump, if returned to the presidency, would veto a national abortion ban, and Trump himself posted that his administration “would be great for women and their reproductive rights.” The comments followed the softening of anti-abortion language in the Republican Party’s official platform.
Colorado’s legislature reconvened this week for a special session called for a single purpose: removing Initiatives 50 & 108 from this November’s ballot. The measures, backed by anonymous right-wing donors, would slash taxes so drastically that a bipartisan coalition of dozens of statewide groups wrote a letter to Governor Jared Polis two weeks ago, pleading with him to call the Legislature back to deal with the “significant and very real threat to all communities.”
By default, middle school students in El Paso County’s Academy District 20 schools can no longer access school library materials until a parent or guardian signs a form granting permission to use library resources through the district’s parent portal.
Following a Colorado Times Recorder story on Thursday, Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek canceled his children’s story time reading of a book by far-right extremist and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, which had been set for Saturday at the Eagle Library.
Here’s the first of a new regular feature. A weekly list of the top extremism stories from the Colorado Times Recorder and beyond. All of this week’s articles are from CTR, but in the future, we’ll include the work of other news outlets too.
